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Perhaps could be used in education to teach users how-to-write-your-first-filesystem.

While I agree and feel there really doesn't need to be another filesystem, we don't know what this FS offers that makes it ideal for its purposes. It could actually be really nice, but of course as with all open source filesystems, the problem is adoption. ext2/3 has been around for a long time and there's still not very good support for those in either Windows or Mac.

I think the developer is relatively smart, because he is smart enough to write a file system.
I also think he wants to see it upstreams because it would feel nice for him and be good for him.

But I think he wanted to experiment with file systems and write something easy and then find a purpose for it.

I don't think he is smart enough to write a scalable journaled file system with metadata, checksumming, transparent compression, cryptography, snapshotting, deduplication, etc.

Originally Posted by schmidtbag

While I agree and feel there really doesn't need to be another filesystem, we don't know what this FS offers that makes it ideal for its purposes. It could actually be really nice, but of course as with all open source filesystems, the problem is adoption. ext2/3 has been around for a long time and there's still not very good support for those in either Windows or Mac.

Useless

99% of portable devices need to operate with at least one Windows PC or a Macintosh. Until there's an IFS driver for windows and a proper Mac driver, any filesystem released for portable devices is a useless waste of devloper time. All 3 people that are exclusively Linux users are going to use this and everyone else is going to ignore it. If developers want to start pushing their technologies they have to aim for interop. Anything less just isn't acceptable anymore. Especially for low level stuff like Filesystems. We have OpenGL, OpenAL, SDL, and Fat32. Until you're ready to add your filesystem to that reasonably prestigious lineup. You won't get adoption. Linux already has ~50 filesystems most of which are useless outside of their niches due to lack of interop.